Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer (BT-26021)

Bastion Technologies • Houston, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Avionics Radiation Hardness Assurance Engineer will support the space program located in Houston, TX. RESPONSIBILITIES: Report directly to the Electronics and Electrical Section Manager as part of group of over 45 other Electronics and Electrical Engineers. Be familiar with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity). Support new projects and sustaining efforts throughout product life cycle, including: standards adjudications, system requirements reviews, preliminary design reviews, critical design reviews, manufacturing readiness reviews, flight readiness reviews, and failure investigations, as well as testing, analysis, inspection, sustaining support efforts. Drive critical decision-making processes for performing radiation testing, deriving part performance classification and taxonomy, and improving vehicle and subsystem level radiation reliability and survivability. Tailor Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) requirements based upon mission, environment, application, and lifetime (MEAL) factors as well as program/project risk posture. Bound stochastic and deterministic electronics failure modes induced by natural space radiation environment. Write verification test plans, test procedures, and test reports against product requirement. Ability to read and understand schematics for circuit and system diagrams to evaluate upstream and downstream impacts for transient analysis. Collaborate with design engineers, project personnel, and other stakeholders to evaluate performance of electronic hardware and assess need to address impacts to functional, performance, reliability, and availability metrics. Support program activities on behalf of subject matter experts (SMEs) by assessing relevance information with technical discussions to determine need to request SME consideration, and then accurately conveying SME assessments back to program and project stakeholders. Make recommendations for design, process improvements, and data collection. Perform root-cause analysis of test failures and communicate recommended actions. Present test results and data analyses to team members, project engineers, program managers, systems engineers, formal boards/panels, and more. Ability to adapt in the face technical hurdles and overcome challenges associated with increasing use of industrial-grade and automotive-grade components in space applications. Familiarity with Poisson, Markov, and/or Gaussian statistical analysis. Willingness to work in a technically challenging field. Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
• Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering.
• Must have 1+ years of recent and related work experience as a Test Engineer or Lab Scientist.
• Be familiar with the subject matter expertise (SME) and/or specialty engineering field in radiation effects in microelectronics for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity).
• Work directly with technicians, engineers, managers, and other stakeholders on a wide variety of Projects.
• Possess technical knowledge of radiation effects in microelectronics and avionics systems, may include: basic mechanisms for single-event effects and total dose, test strategies, mitigation techniques, and analysis of circuits, systems, and data links.
• Be familiar with the suite of activities known as Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) for avionics (analog, digital, power, etc.): determining Mission, Environment, Application, and Lifetime (MEAL) factors, developing and interpreting requirements, bill-of-materials requirement gap analysis, radiation testing, environment definition, radiation transport, shielding analysis, dose-depth curves, Single-Event Effects Criticality Analysis (SEECA), derating, Safe Operating Area (SOA), Radiation Design Margin (RDM), etc.
• Assess EEE parts, circuits, functions, components, subsystems, and systems to evaluate risks, effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and the ability to meet functional, performance, and reliability requirements during and after exposure to the mission ionizing radiation environment.
• Lead or support screening and characterization test efforts for heavy ion, proton, and pulsed-laser Single-Event Effects (SEE), Total Ionizing Dose (TID), Enhanced Low-Dose Rate Sensitivity (ELDRS), Total Non-Ionizing Dose (TNID), Displacement Damage Dose (DDD), etc.
• Create detailed radiation assessments, presentations, test plans, analyses, and reports.
• Design, troubleshoot, and repair new and existing radiation test setups, may include: cables, laboratory test equipment, printed circuit boards, software, firmware, hardware description languages, etc.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering/ Materials Engineering / Aerospace Engineering/ Nuclear Engineering/ Physics in related radiation area from an accredited engineering school.
• Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers.
• Familiar with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity) with systems engineering and integration (S&EI) and/or specialty engineering for NASA spaceflight (or similar complexity).
• Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers.
• Prior experience in design and testing analog instrumentation systems
• Project based experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting power distribution electronics, battery systems, and other electrical hardware (requirements definition; system modeling and simulation; circuit analysis; PCB design, fabrication; requirements verification).
• Excellent fabrication, and assembly; harness fabrication; requirements verification).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers designing and building world-class, NASA spaceflight hardware.
• Prior experience in design and test of power supply and conditioning systems.

Responsibilities

• Support new projects and sustaining efforts throughout product life cycle
• Drive critical decision-making processes for performing radiation testing
• Tailor Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) requirements based upon mission, environment, application, and lifetime (MEAL) factors as well as program/project risk posture
• Bound stochastic and deterministic electronics failure modes induced by natural space radiation environment
• Write verification test plans, test procedures, and test reports against product requirement
• Evaluate performance of electronic hardware and assess need to address impacts to functional, performance, reliability, and availability metrics
• Support program activities on behalf of subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Make recommendations for design, process improvements, and data collection
• Perform root-cause analysis of test failures and communicate recommended actions
• Present test results and data analyses to team members, project engineers, program managers, systems engineers, formal boards/panels, and more
• Comply with all radiation regulatory requirements for radiation safety

Benefits

• Bastion offers a wide range of benefits for their full-time employees; medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, disability benefits, life insurance, retirement 401k, vacation, sick pay, holidays, flexible work schedules (when available), along with many other options.
• We also support career advancement through professional training and development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees